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USAID/Philippines Basa Pilipinas Program Final Project Report

The USAID/Philippines, through its Basa Pilipinas program has reached over 1.8 million students from kindergarten to Grade 3, trained over 19,000 teachers and school heads, and provided over 10 million units of teaching and learning materials to 3,000 public elementary schools in the Philippines. After five years of Basa implementation, reading assessments have shown notable improvements in students’ reading skills, particularly in Filipino, the national language and one of the official languages of instruction throughout the K–12 cycle.